Silhouette | Eliot Eidelman

“All I need is a cabin in the woods with a piano,” has been Eliot Eidelman’s refrain since experiencing a creative outburst at an artist residency in the Mojave that spawned the material for his first solo album back in 2014. Nearly a decade and seven releases later, his dream for Thoreauvian artistic solitude came true when he settled into a tiny house trailer in a remote canyon outside of Ojai, California, with just enough room to fit a Baldwin upright. Silhouette is the first album since the radical lifestyle shift toward complete devotion to his art. “I stopped going out, drinking and smoking, and just got into a flow where I’m always creating and honing my sound.”

In the fall of 2023 Eliot reconvened with longtime collaborator Evan Backer of Wand for a series of recording sessions that yielded dozens of tracks covering Eliot’s time as a live-in graveyard shift manager of a rock’n’roll hotel in Atlanta, his years as a musical tour guide of historic New Orleans, and his current chapter as a hermitic canyon creature. Silhouette is the first collection from these sessions to see the light of day, featuring a distinctive classic Americana palette soaked in Tyler Nuffer’s pedal steel and a playful, rebellious attitude that has long been a trademark of Eliot’s lyrical style, now more refreshing than ever.
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releases January 10, 2025

Eliot Eidelman – vocals, harmonica, guitar, bass
Evan Backer – vocals, slide guitar, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums
Natasha Heaszl – vocals
Tyler Nuffer – slide guitar, pedal steel

All song written by Eliot Eidelman, ASCAP
Recording engineered by Evan Backer at Tujunga Motherfucker and Nuffer Ranch, and by Sepand Shehab at HS Studio
Mixed by Evan Backer at Tujunga Motherfucker
Mastered by Daniel Eaton at Little Castle Mastering
Artwork by Natasha Heaszl

Another Evan and Eliot on Earth Production

ClientEliot EidelmanServicesMasteringYear2024